Babes in Toyland is a 1986 television movie directed by Clive Donner which stars Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves. It was broadcast on NBC on December 19, 1986 and released on VHS. The European theatrical version was shortened to 94 minutes--this version was released worldwide on VHS, it has not yet been released on DVD. 11-year-old Lisa Piper (Barrymore) has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young Mary Contrary (Jill Schoelen) is about to marry the antagonistic Barnaby Barnacle (Richard Mulligan), although she loves Jack Nimble (Reeves). Lisa stops the wedding and, with her new friends, discovers that Barnaby wants to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie (Googy Gress) ask the Toymaster (Pat Morita) for help, but he can't help them unless Lisa believes in toys. Lisa reveals she kept her teddy bear. Just then, Barnaby unleashes his army of boogeymen upon Toyland. However, the Toymaster creates life-sized toy soldiers which drive the boogeymen to the gates of Toyland. Barnaby, having no control of his creatures, is then banished from Toyland after trying to make Lisa his new Troller. Jack and Mary are then married. Lisa is taken back home by the Toymaster in a sleigh with wooden reindeer, across the Milky Way until she wakes up at home as though it were a dream. |